# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1329200844 25200 # Node ID 91654978c8e0bd6e5c2fbf9e3d3e757e154811ef # Parent e23717fefc7f83441121b86c80b35395e3236c04 finished rough draft for touch diff -r e23717fefc7f -r 91654978c8e0 org/touch.org --- a/org/touch.org Mon Feb 13 22:52:00 2012 -0700 +++ b/org/touch.org Mon Feb 13 23:27:24 2012 -0700 @@ -733,9 +733,26 @@ #+html: - [[http://hg.bortreb.com ][source-repository]] +* Next +So far I've implemented simulated Vision, Hearing, and Touch, the most +obvious and promiment senses that humans have. Smell and Taste shall +remain unimplemented for now. This accounts for the "five senses" that +feature so prominently in our lives. But humans have far more than the +five main senses. There are internal chemical senses, pain (which is +*not* the same as touch), heat sensitivity, and our sense of balance, +among others. One extra sense is so important that I must implement it +to have a hope of making creatures that can gracefully control their +own bodies. It is Proprioception which is the sense of the location +of each body part in relation to the other body parts. -* Next +Close your eyes, and touch your nose with your right index finger. How +did you do it? You could not see your hand, and neither your hand nor +your nose could use the sense of touch to guide the path of your hand. +There are no sound cues, and Taste and Smell certainly don't provide +any help. You know where your hand is without your other senses +because of Proprioception. +Onward to [[./proprioception.org][proprioception]]! * COMMENT Code Generation #+begin_src clojure :tangle ../src/cortex/touch.clj